You are absolutely right and I was talking out of my rear end. I know you are right because setting the path in the ELF is a major step in building the Ardour m

You are absolutely right and I was talking out of my rear end. I know you are right because setting the path in the ELF is a major step in building the Ardour macOS packages. That said, I still have this vague memory that launchd does in fact reset some linker-related vars before exec-ing the app binary. Could be wrong about that too.